Matt Sanders

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--Calling the Cooperative Program a spirit and not just a program, Southern Baptist Convention President James Merritt said a proposal by a Baptist General Convention of Texas committee to reduce funding to SBC seminaries represents an anti-SBC and uncooperative spirit that will ultimately hurt Texas Baptists.

ORLANDO, Fla. (BP)–A new program, “E School,” to help train young evangelists could begin as early as 2001, members of the Conference of Southern Baptist Evangelists learned at their 45th annual meeting in Orlando, Fla., June 13. “E School” represents the Southern Baptist North American Mission Board’s continuing support of Southern Baptist evangelists, said Don […]

ORLANDO, Fla. (BP)–Pastors and planters of multicultural churches will soon have another tool to help accomplish what many of them admit is a daunting, but necessary task if Southern Baptists hope to reach the United States in the 21st century. A media kit is being developed by the Southern Baptist North American Mission Board to […]

ORLANDO, Fla. (BP)--Christians in America must regain holiness if they want to minister effectively through God's power, Henry Blackaby and other speakers told Southern Baptists attending a June 11 worship service at the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Fla.

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--With the prayer that hurting Christians will find comfort and non-Christians will be saved, Wedgwood Baptist Church dedicated "Night of Tragedy, Dawning of Light," a book about the Sept. 15 shootings at the Fort Worth, Texas, church.

COCHRANE, Alberta, Canada (BP)–When God started putting together the pieces of Kevin Peacock’s ministry, Peacock didn’t know the picture would include sub-zero temperatures and snow measured by the foot. But the International Mission Board missionary to Canada doesn’t mind, because he knows he’s exactly where God wants him to be. Growing up in South Korea […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–A vision for continuing education that began nearly 30 years ago became reality when the first phase of the Ralph M. Smith Leadership Development Complex was dedicated May 12 at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. “As we dedicate this building to you, we dedicate not the mortars and the […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)--"When I get to heaven," Sydney Browning once told her younger sister, Shannon Carter, "I'll think, 'Now, I can eat all the bleu cheese I want.'

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–An undisclosed number of leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention and the Baptist General Convention of Texas met at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary April 6 to discuss relations between the two groups. An agreed-upon statement was released after the meeting at the Fort Worth campus. The statement did not report who attended […]

FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–“These last few months, I’ve had to learn how to swallow all over again,” Ernest Easley told a chapel audience at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. This was no clever sermon illustration or play on words by the pastor of First Baptist Church, Odessa, Texas. This was his life. Forty-four radiation treatments to […]